garlic monkey bread;

December 7, 2015Katie

Pull apart garlic bread flavored with herbs and cheese

So we made individual garlic monkey breads as a quick side to caesar chicken tortellini the other other night! They were quite tasty, and simple to boot, considering I pretty much always have some biscuit dough floating around in my refrigerator. At the grocery store I had only been focused on picking up ingredients for the tortellini, so side dishes didn’t really cross my mind. But I got home and was thinking, you know what goes great with caesar salad and tortellini? Garlic bread! But alas, no fresh crusty bread, so what’s a girl to do to get her garlic fix?

I knew I had some biscuits in the freezer and you always see recipes for monkey bread, so I pinterest-ed (is that a real verb?), and voila, one of the first options was individual garlic herb monkey breads which was exactly what I wanted. Normally I hate breaking out the muffin pan for things that are going to stick to the cups, but in this case, since the dough is basically soaked in butter before baking, no need to line or grease the pan!

I used three cloves of garlic for these, and you could taste the garlic. As it should be. But I mention it because the particular head of garlic I used has been yielding about 1+ sq. inch per garlic clove, which is not usually the case I’ve found. So adjust according to your tastes! And cheese makes everything better, so don’t forget that! I used flaked parmesan crumbs, but shredded, or even powdered would work fine. I prefer shredded or flaked though, because of the way it crisps up.